Day in pictures

Palestinian police hold a training session in the West Bank city of Ramallah. In the background is the security headquarters, destroyed during conflict with Israel.

A makeshift boat of basketballs and empty water bottles carries a Vietnamese family through the flooded streets of Hanoi after days of heavy rain.

Villagers walk home after tending their crops in Lamongan, East Java, Indonesia.

An Iranian woman walks past an anti-US mural on the wall of the former American embassy in Tehran, ahead of the 29th anniversary of the building's seizure by Islamist revolutionaries.

A man in Indian-administered Kashmir sells heating pots - clay bowls in a wicker frame in which charcoal is burned to keep off the winter cold.

Performers dressed in historical costumes parade through Tokyo to celebrate the Jidai Festival - or Festival of the Ages.

Barack Obama features on stickers of US currency in Kisumu, the main town of Kenya's Nyanza province where his father was born.

A woman waits for ink on her thumb to dry after being registered by the Red Cross in Kibati in eastern Congo.

Thousands of crosses outside Westminster Abbey in London honour British soldiers and civilians killed in conflicts since World War I.

A yacht arrives in Cape Town, South Africa, on its first leg of the Volvo Ocean Race.

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